MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

New Decolonization Committee president invited to visit Argentina

The new C24 is a former Ecuadorean Foreign Affairs minister, Francisco Carrión Mena

Argentina is multiplying its international presence to boost the sovereignty claim over the Islas Malvinas, which next June 23, ‘as every year will be ratified’ by the UN Decolonization Committee, said Argentine ambassador at the UN Jorge Argüello according to a report from Telam, the official Argentine news agency.

Ambassador Argüello also disclosed that he has already invited the new president of the C24 to visit Argentina.

“We’re multiplying our international presence. To each meeting I go world wide I organize a parallel agenda where I try to expose the current situation of the Malvinas sovereignty claim”, insisted Argüello.

During a press round in Buenos Aires Argüello said that the Malvinas question “is an omnipresent issue which is part of the standing agenda, but if you ask me if there has been any advance over last year, I must say no, because we have been unable that UN resolutions be complied by the UK”.

The Argentine ambassador said that since a few days ago the Decolonization Committee has new authorities and the new C24 president is “a former Foreign Affairs minister from Ecuador Francisco Carrión Mean with who we have been in contact and have invited to visit Argentina”.

The former president Donatus Keith Saint Aimee last year visited Argentina and met with President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, members of Congress and travelled to the island of Tierra del Fuego where he also sailed along the Beagle Channel.

Three decades ago the Beagle channel and three islands were in the midst of a dispute with Chile that promised to become a full blown armed conflict but was peacefully solved following the intervention of then Pope John Paul II.

“He (Donatus Keith Saint Aimee) had a very positive attitude in showing an interest in the situation and I believe he even tried a similar visit from London, but he was unable to accomplish it”, revealed Argüello.

The Argentine ambassador before the UN said that the C24 meeting this year will take place June 23, in New York, where Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman will be attending to reiterate the Malvinas sovereignty claim.